I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
I'm a prideful person when it comes to competition.
When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.
Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.
I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.
It's very tough for a ballplayer to get proud and keep his dignity.
If there is no humility, love remains blocked.
If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth.
Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride of self-congratulation. If I am tempted to be complacent and to feel superior because I have had a remarkable vision or an advanced spiritual experience, I should go at once to my knees and repent of the whole thing. I have fallen victim to the enemy.
I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.
Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.
I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It's enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil.
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great worth. If we begin to seek learning to exalt ourselves alone, it leads to selfishness and pride, which will take us away from eternal life.
I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.
I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.
If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.
Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
